Updating Motorola Nexus 6 manually to Android 7.0.0 Nougat

Updating Motorola Nexus 6 manually to Android 7.0.0 Nougat

Android 7.0.0 codenamed Nougat is the latest edition of the world’s most popular mobile operating system. Released in August 22, 2016 for Google’s Nexus devices it has been already discussed a lot about it’s native multiwindow support, improved 3D graphics and even smarter battery optimizations. If you own a Nexus device, you probably received OTA update already. However, if nice Nexus device is rooted, those updates cannot install automatically because recovery partition is overwritten with something as fancy as TWRP. Here is my tutorial how to upgrade Nexus 6 (shamu) to latest version. Actually it is universal walkthrough for both 6.0.* (Marshmallow) and 7.0.0 (Nougat). Let’s start!

This guide is intended for use on Motorola Nexus 6 (shamu) device which has TWRP installed and rooted with SuperSU. It should work on most Nexus devices just make sure to use appropriate images, but the whole procedure is similar. Before you begin read rooting guide to make sure you’ve got TWRP and have SuperSU 2.76 on USB OTG drive.

Unplug USB, plug USB OTG with flash that has SuperSU zip and then hit Down until POWER OFF. Hold Power + Volume down to start device and Volume down to RECOVERY MODE. TWRP loads. Install SuperSU using TWRP´s Install function as described in rooting guide.